• Question: How did life begin?

    Asked by Professor Rayyan to Emma, Christopher, Ashley, Ananthi, Aaron on 11 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Emma Stevenson

      Emma Stevenson answered on 11 Nov 2017:

      Most people believe that eukaryotic life began with something called the endosymbiont theory. How life began before this is a mystery even to me!

    • Photo: Ananthi Ramachandran

      Ananthi Ramachandran answered on 12 Nov 2017:

      One of life’s mysteries! From a scientific point of view it probably would have started with a few simple organisms that evolved over millions and millions of years to become more complex and more dependent on each other. The biologists look at it from one direction, the physicists look at it from another and when you bring in religion that’s another new angle altogether! Another great topic for a debate at school!

    • Photo: Aaron Brown

      Aaron Brown answered on 12 Nov 2017:

      Good question! And one that nobody knows for sure. I believe it started in the sea, where the conditions (light, temperature, nutrients, pH etc) was just right to allow life to begin. Though exactly how it started it one of the biggest unsolved mysteries

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